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10 Ala. App. 206

Conner v. State

Alabama Court of Appeals

Decided May 21, 1914

Alabama Court of Appeals · decided 1914-05-21

Heard before Hon. W. W. Pearson. Bob Conner was convicted of violating the prohibition law, and he appeals. Reversed and remanded. The indictment charges that defendant offered for sale, kept for sale, or otherwise disposed of, spirituous, or malt liquors, contrary to law. The state introduced four or more witnesses. Charge 6 appears in the dissenting opinion.

Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently May 1998

6 state decisions

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Decided 1914-05-21

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WALKER, P. J.

¶1The evidence of the defendant’s guilt of one of the offenses which were charged in the alternative was the testimony of a single witness. The jury could not properly find the defendant guilty of that offense on that testimony if they had a reasonable doubt of the truth of it. It was error to refuse charge 6 requested by the defendant, as it asserted a correct proposition which was applicable to a phase of the evidence in the case.

¶2It does not appear from the record that either of the state’s witnesses exhibited anger. In this respect the hypothesis stated in defendant’s refused charge 12 was not based on a fact in- proof, so far as the record shows. In this situation it cannot be said that the court was in error in refusing to give that charge.

¶3Charge 13 was faulty in requiring an acquittal if, for any reason, the jury were not satisfied to a moral certainty of the defendant’s guilt, whether the reason of their failure so to be satisfied was or was not based upon a consideration of something outside of the evidence in the case.

¶4Charge 14 was well refused because it assumed that there was an “absence of sufficiently satisfying evidence of the guilt of the defendant.”

¶5Reversed and remanded.

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